In the blink of an eye

Can you believe it´s December already?
I feel like the year has gone in an instant and so much has happened in my life that now it´s all like a big blur of seconds rather than months.

Anyway I am madly exited because it´s almost Christmas. My favourite time of the year.

Oh and I am seriously considering to order the Michael Bublé Christmas album (isn´t he like the best person in the world?!)

Like my father,  I have always been a winter person. Snow, early nightfall and warm clothes.

I don´t think there has been a year when I did not go skiing and I would pick that over a summer holiday any time. Call me mad.

Next week I am going on holiday from work and I am so happy to spend Christmas at home with my family.

Last night I went for coktails with a good friend of mine.

I couldn't keep myself from buying some decor stuff for my new flat. Even if I am not actually gonna be there for Christmas Eve.

On Monday I went to the Blue concert in Hamburg and it was amazing.

Although normally this is not my kind of music I do secretly fancy bands like Blue or the Backstreet Boys or Take That or One Direction or....

Last weeks lunch: baked goat cheese with grilled eggplant and rocket.

The city is scrubbing up for Christmas time. Believe me I have never seen so many fairy lights in all my life.

But isn't she a beauty?

Autumn Equinox

It is getting cold here in Germany. And I am beyond excited. Fall and Winter are my favourite seasons. Wearing boots, cozy knitwear and big scarves.

So when the first autumn pieces are hanging on the racks I am chasing into the shops.

Have you been to Zara lately?

Well I was and was truly blown away by their collection. I'couldve bought everything. 

Here is what I bought for my fall wardrobe.

In other stories:

I have received a Wok from my aunt as a housewarming gift and tried it yesterday. I  just threw in what i had in the freezer and was actually surprised how tasty this turned out.

 

We have a great Nespresso machine in the office so this is me pretending to be be as cool as George Clooney while drinking coffee.

Since I am living in a big city the distances I have to walk have gotten quite larger than at home. I don´t think I have worn any other shoes than my Nike Frees the last few weeks. I don´t really mind.

Have you ever tried coconut water before? I think I am slowly becoming addicted to this.


Have a great week :)

The Big Move

I have finally moved into my first own apartment. 

Moving out of my parents house was harder than I thought. I was never someone who struggled with home sickness but rather wanderlust and never had any problems being far away from home.

This time however, it is totally different, I guess that´s because I am actually moving out for good.

The whole process of it however is very exciting. Buying new furniture, planning how to organize everything and packing up your things (yes, even that is exciting to me).

It happened on sunday.

We packed up two cars, one with all of the Ikea packages and the other with all of my other things like clothing and personal items.

It was a ridiculously weird feeling driving away from home even if I know that obviously I am coming back even if it is just for the weekend.

Luckily, I was granted to leave work for 2 days because of the move so I am able to settle in correctly.

Have a great evening :)

The End...

...is within sight.

As I have already mentioned I am moving. Fortunately it will finally happen this weekend.

I started my new job at the beginning of August and now I can eventually move out of the hotel and into my own little space. I am thrilled!!!

That also means I will finally have time and space to blog which I am really looking forward too.

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for - William Shedd

Whish that I could stay forever this young...

I don't think I have ever had so many things going on in my life like right now.

I have started a new job in a new city, I am in the process of moving out of my parents house but still live in a hotel at the moment and I am trying to stay calm despite all that.

I know that a lot of people have done all this before but I have never taken such a huge step in my life.

So whilst I am trying so organise everything while having no proper internet access let alone my laptop, today´s post will just be a quick one, showing you some photos that I have taken with my phone (which is the only technological gadget I have with me momentarily).

My favourite flowers from my mothers garden.

This is what you get when you drink cocktails at Happy Hour.
The only bad thing is - everyone can see how many cocktails you have had.

This is from my holiday in spain. It was even more beautiful than this picture shows.

My favourite greek takeaway - called saganaki.

I recently made a trip to Stockholm with a good friend of mine - my parents' present for my graduation.

I love olives, I love basil, I love pizza. That's all.

Have a great sunday :)

summer in the city

This year´s summer was ridiculousy late so we kept waiting and waiting and while I am not really a fan of high temperatures I do enjoy some beautiful sunshine.
This week we were lucky and summer finally arrived.
Which generally meant humidity of aproximately 99 % and me not coming out of the house from 11 am to 5 pm. The evenings are great though and almost every single household got out their barbecue gear and started their own little BBQ. So did we. 

 

There is no BBQ without my favourite cocktail - the Mojito...

...and baked greek feta which is spiced according to my own secret recipe.


It all went downhill after I took these photos as we were graced with a very scary thunderstorm and had to move our BBQ inside.
However I do quite like summer tempests with cuddling up into the sofa and wincing with every rumbling thunder :D

How do you like thunderstorms in summer?

A few escape your Magic Arrow...

My current playlist:

• Roxanne - The Police
• Come Together - The Beatles
• Treading Water - Alex Clare
• I Sat by the Ocean - Queens of the stone age
• Flick Of The Finger - Beady Eye
• Get Lucky - Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams
• Something´s Got a Hold on Me - Etta James
• What Became Of The Likely Lads - The Libertines
• Rockin' Chair - Oasis
• Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams
• Magic Arrow - Timber Timbre
• Riders on the Storm - The Doors
• Something Like Olivia - John Mayer
• Only Love - Ben Howard

 

What are You listening to at the moment?

press reset

This is my second attempt to write a blog. When I started this blog in 2011 I had no idea in which direction it would go and there are seriously so many blogs out there that I really didn´t know how it would go on. I could say that life got in the way so I didn´t continue writing after a few post but honestly I guess I was just lazy or unmotivated. Which looking back now is exactly the wrong thing to do because when you start a blog you have to keep going and going until, if you´re lucky, your little space on the internet gets noticed by some and maybe more people. Well as you see I was not patient enough and stopped investing time and almost forgot about it.

But since a couple of weeks I have been thinking about starting again quite frequently and I think I am ready to do it now. Maybe also because there are some major changes about to happen in my life and I think those are quite the right circumstances to give this another go.

So I thought I´d start with a little recap:

I´ve graduated-
This is what I have anticipated yet feared the most since the last 5 years.
I mean obviously you´re over the moon that school is over!! but I am also not sure if I am ready to leave it all behind just yet. I´ve made the most incredible friends, went partying every weekend and looking back didn´t really have a lot of responsibility.
Well now I do because I need to take my life into my own hands and actually get up and make decisions. It is not like I was sitting at home the last 13 years of school and let life float by but I feel like now it is time to truly grow up.

I also went on vacation...
...you know to congratulate myself for graduating

I am moving-
Believe me up to now I have only been saying it but writing it down is a whole different story. Pretty scary stuff since I am not just moving into another apartment but into a new city approx. 270 kilometers or 2 1/2 hours away from home. Imagine me sitting in front of my laptop with crazily shaky hands and multiply that by 1000 to imagine my mother´s reaction.

There are quite a lot of things I am scared of, first of all the most important thing to me is making new friends and wether I am able to do that. I can´t imagine a time when I didn´t know anybody but over there I don´t. And I am biting my nails of because of that. Now people tell me that everything is going to be fine and that once I am there it is going to be the most amazing time of my life but right now I am not so sure about that.

Secondly, finding an apartment has been far from easy. Generally the housing market in Germany and its big cities is almost empty and not really affordable so finding my own litttle space has been really really diffucult which has not at all soothed my general fear.

However, I am excited. Obviously. I am not like jumping up and down because I am moving into one of the most beautiful and my personal favourite city in Germany, the excitement in more like inwards - but it is there.

Directions-
I feel like I should tell you in what direction I would like my blog to go.
I do not want to start a blog that it solemly about one topic like fashion or beauty, whilst those things do really interest me. I would like to have a place where I can share parts of my life from every differnet angle.

I guess in modern blogger language you would call that a lifestyle blog.
I really wanna try to have as many pictures on this blog as possible however I don´t yet know if I am quite ready to post pictures of myself and all - I might have to build that up over time to get more comfortable with it. Having said this I have been dreaming to buy a really good camera for a while now and I think I might do that with my first wage.

Good Night:D